Welcome to day 10 in the 30 Days of Untried Challenge! Today I will show you 4 purple/pink polishes - all untried. I don't really know why or how it happened but my pink/purple drawer holds the largest number of untried polishes. And since I need to gradient, what would make more sense then using polishes from that drawer?

So these are the polishes I used, from left to right: China Glaze - Dance Baby, A-England - Princess Tears, Chic - Pinkish Metalix and A-England - Lady Of The Lake.

I applied two coats of China Glaze - Dance Baby, which I didn't think had any issues worth mentioning. Good formula, pigmented enough to be completely opaque in two coats, self leveling and has average drying time. It's just a very regular baby pink. I am not impressed by this color but I think it's a good one for nail art. When it dried completely, I used my stripping tape and placed a few random tapes on the top area of each nail. Then I sponged using this technique, by applying a line of each polish onto my sponge. When I was done - I removed the tape and then top coated the mani.
However, you can see how not straight those lines turned out. This happened because the polish dried before I removed the tape. So this is why I suggested in my tutorial here to use a slow dry polishes.

I did hope to get something closer in the effect to this amazing mani by Amy of the Nail Venturous, but it didn't work quite well... Even my cat is laughing at me...

What?! That's what you call a fail? You're insane, Jin. That mani is a total win! Okay, not perfect, I allow that. But it's super nice, and it's hard to notice that the lines are not harsh... 100% positive, this rocks!

What an awesome awesome gradient!!! And such a clean tape job!!! Thx so much for posting the link to that tutorial!!! I tried a gradient over the weekend and totally effed it up, now I realize it's because I didn't wet my sponge first!And I think your kitty kat can see mine through the monitor and is trying to say hi!! :))